Paolo Tealdi writes:

>Accessing a file (a TurboImage Database) throught a FILE equation
>can be slower significantly that accessing normally ?

No, there's essentially no difference. The file equation is referenced
once by the system, when the data base is first opened. A file equation
is just a "note" that says to the file system, "when I tell you to open
file or data base A, I really mean to open B."

-- Bruce


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